Uncle Tom's Children
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Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of novellas and the first book published by African-American author Richard Wright, who went on to write Native Son, Black Boy, and The Outsider. When it was first
First edition cover with quote from Harry Scherman
Native Son
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Native Son is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in th
Uncle Tom's Children
…Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of novellas and the first book published by African-American author Richard Wright, who went on to write Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). When it was first published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children included only four novellas: "Big Boy…
First edition
Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas in the original Broadway production of Native Son (1941), produced and directed by Orson Welles